Animal Health

Lord Taylor of Holbeach: To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 26 February (WA 107—08), how animal health charge-out rates are adjusted for productivity.

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: Charge-out rates have to recover full costs. It is accepted that a utilisation rate of 100 per cent is not achievable and so, in line with standard practice for service organisations, the charge-out rates are arrived at by assuming a productivity rate of 70 per cent.

Bovine Tuberculosis

Baroness Byford: To ask Her Majesty's Government how many cases of bovine tuberculosis have been confirmed in (a) cats, (b) dogs, and (c) deer, in each of the last 15 years.

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: The number of confirmed bovine tuberculosis cases within the past 15 years for cats, dogs and deer (farmed and wild), in GB, are set out in the following table.
	Suspect cases of TB in domestic animal species other than cattle and deer have only been notifiable since March 2006. As shown in this table, incidents of TB caused by Mycobacterium bovisin those species were recorded prior to this, but we will not necessarily be aware of all cases due, for instance, to misdiagnosis or lack of reporting.
	
		
			 Year Domestic Cat Dog *Deer (Farmed) *Deer (Wild) 
			 1994 - - 3 1 
			 1995 - - 0 3 
			 1996 - - 11 11 
			 1997 - - 3 3 
			 1998 2 0 8 6 
			 1999 0 0 9 7 
			 2000 3 0 8 6 
			 2001 0 0 1 1 
			 2002 2 1 7 3 
			 2003 2 0 0 14 
			 2004 6 1 0 42 
			 2005 13 0 1 31 
			 2006 14 0 5 29 
			 2007 15 1 1 20 
			 2008** 16 2 1 31 
		
	
	*Number of bacteriologically confirmed cases of TB in deer submitted to VLA for laboratory examination (source: VLA surveillance contract SB4510 and annual reports of the CVO, Defra). Data exclude positive deer tissues or carcases submitted as part of the survey of TB in wild deer in the SW of England (2006-07) and other research projects during this period studying the prevalence of TB in wild deer.**Data for 2008 are provisional and yet to be confirmed.

CCTV

Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the estimated number of closed circuit television cameras operating in the United Kingdom in (a) the public sector, and (b) the private sector.

Lord West of Spithead: This information is not available centrally, although this is one of the areas which will be addressed through the National CCTV Strategy, published in October 2007.

Crime: Drinking

Lord Roberts of Llandudno: To ask Her Majesty's Government how many convictions for drinking offences of persons aged (a) 18 or under, and (b) 18—25, there were in each Police Authority area in (1) 2000, (2) 2004, and (3) 2008.

Lord West of Spithead: The number of persons found guilty at all courts for selected drinking offences in England and Wales, by age group, police force area and period are given in table 1.
	The number of persons issued with a penalty notice for disorder (PND) for selected drinking offences by age group (data are available for persons aged 16 and over), police force area and period are given in table 2. The PND scheme was implemented in all 43 police force areas in England and Wales in 2004.
	Information relating to Scotland and Northern Ireland is a matter for the Scottish Executive and the Northern Ireland Office respectively.
	Data are given in the tables for 2000, 2004 and 2007 (latest available). Data for 2008 will be available in the autumn of 2009.
	Table 1: The number of persons found guilty for selecteddrinking offences(1) in England and Wales, by agegroup and period(2) (3)
	
		
			   Age 10-17   Age 18-25  
			 Police force area 2000 2004 2007 2000 2004 2007 
			 Avon and Somerset 11 14 31 115 134 56 
			 Bedfordshire 9 12 10 52 33 22 
			 Cambridgeshire 6 15 10 42 35 21 
			 Cheshire 44 55 25 217 167 51 
			 City of London - - - 7 5 4 
			 Cleveland 47 45 21 251 208 40 
			 Cumbria 42 44 51 201 204 136 
			 Derbyshire 17 41 18 99 126 93 
			 Devon and Cornwall 53 84 96 231 130 167 
			 Dorset 19 9 22 156 56 36 
			 Durham 48 48 74 184 170 67 
			 Essex 53 26 9 215 43 54 
			 Gloucestershire 10 7 3 55 56 14 
			 Greater Manchester 85 36 28 330 119 94 
			 Hampshire 71 78 31 456 210 88 
			 Hertfordshire 22 15 2 162 147 10 
			 Humberside 20 25 12 75 42 17 
			 Kent 69 114 65 317 426 95 
			 Lancashire 139 83 91 691 263 216 
			 Leicestershire 1 - 3 7 9 12 
			 Lincolnshire 21 37 4 179 166 25 
			 Merseyside 160 102 85 623 400 385 
			 Metropolitan Police 55 55 39 375 230 172 
			 Norfolk 4 5 11 48 33 33 
			 North Yorkshire 25 19 26 176 66 65 
			 Northamptonshire 3 3 4 4 8 4 
			 Northumbria 299 394 479 1,500 1,733 1,887 
			 Nottinghamshire 16 11 10 152 74 71 
			 South Yorkshire 96 93 38 402 392 187 
			 Staffordshire(4) - 19 16 - 65 49 
			 Suffolk 17 31 3 91 135 34 
			 Surrey 19 21 5 152 103 34 
			 Sussex 37 38 38 157 149 118 
			 Thames Valley 36 41 15 359 271 74 
			 Warwickshire 13 8 10 95 41 14 
			 West Mercia 27 51 42 165 151 194 
			 West Midlands 24 28 69 115 83 342 
			 West Yorkshire 96 46 124 493 193 395 
			 Wiltshire 18 22 2 108 112 21 
			 Dyfed-Powys 7 14 15 82 83 56 
			 Gwent 28 20 37 132 93 114 
			 North Wales 49 36 22 292 174 65 
			 South Wales 71 74 20 423 314 58 
			 Total 1,887 1,919 1,716 9,986 7,652 5,690 
		
	
	(1) Includes the following statutes and offence descriptions: Licensing Act 2003 s.150(1).Individual aged under 18 knowingly consuming alcohol.Criminal Justice Act 1967 s.91.Being guilty while drunk of disorderly behaviour.Licensing Act 1872 s.12.Being found drunk in a highway or other public place, whether a building or not, or on licensed premises. Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 s.12 Alcohol consumption in designated public places.(2) The statistics relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences the principal offence is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.(3) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.(4) Staffordshire Police Force was only able to submit sample data for persons proceeded against and convicted in the magistrates' courts for the year2000. Although sufficient to estimate higher orders of data, these data are not robust enough at a detailed level and have been excluded from the table.Source:Office for Criminal Justice Reform - Evidence & Analysis Unit.[Ref: IOS 203-09].Table 2: The number of Penalty Notices for Disorder (PNDs) issued to persons for selected drinking offences(1) In England and Wales, by age group and period (2)(3)
	
		
			  Age 16-17  Age 18-25  
			 Police force area 2004 2007 2004 2007 
			 Avon and Somerset - 17 100 134 
			 Bedfordshire 13 21 58 137 
			 British Transport Police ** 31 ** 275 
			 Cambridgeshire 1 22 106 200 
			 Cheshire 39 38 193 300 
			 City of London - 1 11 108 
			 Cleveland 38 44 181 250 
			 Cumbria 22 15 223 403 
			 Derbyshire 27 79 214 384 
			 Devon and Cornwall - 95 605 962 
			 Dorset 4 14 43 104 
			 Durham 7 4 280 543 
			 Essex 41 28 367 245 
			 Gloucestershire 23 16 136 56 
			 Greater Manchester 8 68 198 201 
			 Hampshire 18 55 656 345 
			 Hertfordshire 19 28 116 179 
			 Humberside 57 65 294 374 
			 Kent 14 158 309 1,119 
			 Lancashire 224 561 1,418 2,930 
			 Leicestershire 1 10 45 222 
			 Lincolnshire 6 5 100 40 
			 Merseyside 222 336 1,382 1,856 
			 Metropolitan Police 61 85 1,779 1,386 
			 Norfolk 2 8 38 141 
			 Northamptonshire 17 33 144 213 
			 Northumbria - 279 81 2,735 
			 North Yorkshire 1 80 229 578 
			 Nottinghamshire 32 34 250 348 
			 South Yorkshire 107 237 909 1,552 
			 Staffordshire 36 38 235 214 
			 Suffolk 4 4 174 51 
			 Surrey 2 20 64 150 
			 Sussex 76 79 490 845 
			 Thames Valley 11 12 241 201 
			 Warwickshire 9 11 142 66 
			 West Mercia 4 44 95 360 
			 West Midlands 85 222 767 2,011 
			 West Yorkshire 71 190 457 1,496 
			 Wiltshire 7 25 219 167 
			 Dyfed-Powys 14 13 96 133 
			 Gwent 6 16 76 111 
			 North Wales 56 138 381 610 
			 South Wales 1 25 48 176 
			 Total 1,386 3,304 13,950 24,911 
		
	
	(1) Includes the following statutes and offence descriptions: Licensing Act 2003 s.150(1).Individual aged under 18 knowingly consuming alcohol.Criminal Justice Act 1967 s.91.Being guilty while drunk of disorderly behaviour.Licensing Act 1872 s.12.Being found drunk in a highway or other public place, whether a building or not, or on licensed premises.Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 s.12 Alcohol consumption in designated public places.(2) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.(3) The PND scheme was implemented in all 43 police force areas in 2004.** Not applicable. The British Transport Police started issuing PNDs on 1st March 2006.Source:Office for Criminal Justice Reform—Evidence & Analysis Unit. [Ref: IOS203-09]

Crown Prosecution Service

Lord Tebbit: To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Baroness Scotland of Asthal on 24 March (WA 110) stating that "the Crown Prosecution Service does not take into consideration gender, sexual orientation and ethnic origins in ensuring the most suitable candidate is appointed", whether that principle has been applied without exception and observed across the public service since 1997.

Lord Patel of Bradford: Recruitment into the Civil Service is based on the principle of selection on merit on the basis of fair and open competition. Recruitment to the wider public sector is not subject to regulation by the Civil Service Commissioners.

Cybercrime

Baroness Warsi: To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to protect the United Kingdom from (a) a cyber-terrorist attack, and (b) cyber crime; and
	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to protect (a) public utilities companies, (b) banks, (c) the retail sector, and (d) Government departments, from cyber attacks.

Lord Patel of Bradford: Her Majesty's Government have a wide ranging set of measures in place to protect the United Kingdom from all forms of electronic attack including cyber-terrorism and cyber crime.
	These measures include:
	CPNI: Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure, provides advice on electronic or cyber protective security measures to the businesses and organisations that comprise the UK's critical national infrastructure, including public utilities companies and banks.CESG: part of GCHQ, provides government departments with advice and guidance on how to protect against, detect and mitigate various types of cyber attack. It runs the Computer Emergency Response Team, GovCertUK which provides warnings, alerts and assistance in resolving serious IT incidents for the public sector.All government Departments have access to the Government Secure Intranet (GSi) which securely connects around 200 government departments and agencies.The Government's Data Handling Review published in June 2008 mandated a number of minimum data security measures for HMG such as penetration testing of government IT systems.Strengthening the Computer Misuse Act to reflect the seriousness of offences and updating legislation to take account of technological advances.Establishing three units that tackle crime on the internet: the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP); SOCA, deals with organised e-crime affecting the private and public sectors; and the recently set-up Police Central e-crime Unit.Sponsoring Get Safe Online, a joint public and private sector initiative to raise awareness of internet safety among the general public and small businesses
	The Cabinet Office is currently leading a cross-departmental project to develop the UK's approach to cyber security, including ways to improve the security of key systems.

Data Protection

Lord Pearson of Rannoch: To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the legal basis of European Union Directives 2006/24/EC and 2002/58/EC on privacy and electronic communications.

Lord West of Spithead: Directives 2006/24/EC (Data Retention) and 2002/58/EC (Privacy and Electronic Communications) concern data processing and data retention in the electronic communications sector and the elimination of obstacles to the internal market for electronic communications, and were therefore made on a first pillar basis established by the 1992 Maastricht treaty. The legal basis of 2006/24/EC (Data Retention) was upheld in the recent European Court of Justice case (C-301/06 Ireland v Parliament). It was the opinion of the European Court of Justice that all the normal tests for using Article 95 were met.
	It is important to note the 2006 directive covers the retention of communications data and not access to it. In particular, recital 25 of the Data Retention Directive specifically states that law enforcement access to this retained data falls outside the scope of Community law and such access is therefore covered by UK legislation.

Defra: Staff

Lord Taylor of Holbeach: To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 26 February (WA 107—08), how many staff work in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Shared Service Division providing back office functions for animal health.

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Shared Services Directorate provides back office services to a number of customers within the Defra network. As many staff provide services to more than one customer it is only possible to provide an estimate of the resource (based on volumes of transactions) providing back office function to the Animal Health Agency. This estimate for 2008/09 of 45.7 FTE (full-time equivalent) staff includes those in support areas such as business planning and communications, in addition to those in operational roles.

Government Departments: Databases

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer: To ask Her Majesty's Government how much money has been spent on procuring and developing government databases since 1997; how many databases have been planned since 1997; and how many of those have been implemented and maintained.

Lord Patel of Bradford: Each government department is responsible for the management of its own databases. The information requested is not held centrally and to do so would incur disproportionate cost.

Government Departments: Vacancies

Baroness Warsi: To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (a) internal, and (b) external, vacancies each government department is currently advertising.

Lord Patel of Bradford: Civil Service vacancies are advertised widely, including on the Civil Service website. Information on the total number of jobs currently advertised is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

Government: IT Contracts

Lord Patten: To ask Her Majesty's Government which information technology contracts with a value of £50 million or over have been entered into by the Scotland Office and its predecessor since 1997; and which of those have been completed to budget, to time and to specification.

Lord Davidson of Glen Clova: The Scotland Office was established on 1 July 1999. It shares an information technology system (SCOTS) with the Scottish Executive, which is responsible for the development, administration and maintenance of the system; consequently, the office does not directly enter into any IT contracts.

Health: Alzheimer's Disease

Lord Bradley: To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people were diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in (a) the north-west, (b) Greater Manchester, and (c) the City of Manchester, in each of the last five years; and
	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people were diagnosed with dementia in (a) the north-west, (b) Greater Manchester, and (c) the City of Manchester, in each of the last five years.

Lord Darzi of Denham: Information on the number of people diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and dementia in the north-west, Greater Manchester and the city of Manchester, in each of the last five years, is not available in the format requested.
	The national Quality and Outcomes Framework provides the number of people recorded on practice disease registers with a diagnosis of dementia, but does not distinguish between Alzheimer's disease and other possible forms of dementia. According to the publication Revisions to the General Medical Services Contract 2006/07, a copy of which has already been placed in the Library, Alzheimer's disease accounts for 50 to 75 per cent of cases of dementia, thus giving a crude indication of the number of people diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in the north-west, Greater Manchester and the city of Manchester.
	The register count is only available for the last two releases of the framework, covering the periods 2006-07 and 2007-08. It also includes only those practices that have chosen to participate in the framework, as participation currently operates on a voluntary basis. Information is not available for all of the areas requested, as some are not health areas. Where this occurs, information has been supplied for the health areas that best fit those requested.
	The available information is shown in the following table.
	The number of people recorded on practice disease registers with a diagnosis of dementia in the north-west, Greater Manchester and the city of Manchester—2006-07 to 2007-08
	
		
			  2006-07 2007-08 
			 North-west 31,746. 32,621 
			 Greater Manchester Primary Care Trusts 10,943 11,126 
			 Manchester Primary Care Trust 1,787 1,762 
		
	
	Source: National Quality of Outcomes Framework.Notes:1. Greater Manchester Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) include the following:Ashton, Leigh & Wigan PCT Bolton PCTBury PCTHeywood, Middleton and Rochdale PCT Manchester PCTOldham PCTSalford PCTStockport PCTTameside & Glossop PCT Trafford PCT2. The national Quality and Outcomes Framework was introduced in April 2004, as part of the new general medical services contract. Participation by practices in the framework is voluntary, though participation rates are very high—with most personal medical services practices also taking part. The above information was derived from the quality management analysis system—a national system developed by NHS Connecting for Health.3. The quality management analysis system captures the number of patients on the various disease registers for each practice. The number of patients on the clinical registers can be used to calculate measures of disease prevalence, expressing the number of patients on each register as a percentage of the number of patients on practices' lists. The above figures are just the number of patients on the disease register for dementia.

Internet: Deep Packet Inspection

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer: To ask Her Majesty's Government what research they have undertaken into procuring Deep Packet Inspection technologies.

Lord Patel of Bradford: As the national technical authority for information assurance, CESG conducts research in a number of fields to ensure the relevance and quality of advice, guidance and services provided to Her Majesty's Government. To this end, CESG has conducted technical evaluations of Deep Packet Inspection technologies. For reasons of commercial confidentiality it would not be appropriate to discuss the results of those evaluations in any detail.

Iraq: Gay People

Lord Roberts of Llandudno: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they enforce the removal of gay men and women to Iraq.

Lord West of Spithead: The UK Border Agency looks to return to Iraq individuals from there who have no right to remain in the UK, including those who, if they have claimed international protection, have been found by the asylum decision-making and independent appeals system not to need such protection.

National DNA Database

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer: To ask Her Majesty's Government what differences in the sensitivity and utility of data in the national DNA database and the National Fingerprint Database account for the different rules for collection, storage and removal of personal data that apply to those databases.

Lord West of Spithead: The legal provisions governing the taking and retention of DNA samples and fingerprints for the national DNA database (NDNAD) and the national fingerprint database (IDENT1) are set out in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE), as amended by the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 and the Criminal Justice Act 2003. They provide that both DNA and fingerprints may be taken from a person arrested for a recordable offence and retained indefinitely, including for persons who are not convicted of a crime.
	Policy on the retention of DNA and fingerprint records is being reviewed in the light of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of S and Marper. The Government are considering their response to the judgment in conjunction with the Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers. A White Paper will be published later this year which will contain proposals on how we intend to implement the judgment.
	In relation to the removal of records, under the provisions in PACE, the decision on whether to agree to a request from an individual to have their DNA profile, fingerprints and associated records removed from police databases lies with the chief officer of the force which took the DNA sample and fingerprint records.
	In January 2006, the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) issued guidance to chief officers on the consideration of applications for the removal of DNA samples, fingerprint records and Police National Computer records taken by forces in England and Wales. The ACPO guidelines make it clear that it is expected that DNA profiles and fingerprints which have been taken lawfully will be removed in exceptional cases only.

NHS: Foundation Trusts

Lord Greaves: To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the status of the application for foundation trust status by the East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust; and what are the next steps in the process.

Lord Darzi of Denham: The Secretary of State supported East Lancashire Hospitals National Health Service Trust's application to become an NHS foundation trust in September 2008. Monitor (the statutory name of which is the independent regulator of NHS foundation trusts), is now assessing the trust's application. Guidance on Monitor's assessment process is set out in the document Applying for NHS Foundation Trust Status—Guide for Applicants (Monitor and the Department of Health, November 2008). A copy of this document has been placed in the Library.

Pakistan

The Earl of Sandwich: To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have of the number of persons currently displaced by conflict in Swat and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan; and what contribution they have made to the United Nations Humanitarian Action Plan and other programmes to help those displaced.

Lord Tunnicliffe: The number of people displaced by conflict and insecurity from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and parts of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), including Swat, has increased substantially during the last eight months. At the end of March 2009 the total number of internally displaced people registered in NWFP (including those from the FATA) was 547,000 (86,000 individuals in 11 formal camps and a further 461,000 outside camps).
	The Department for International Development has so far committed £12 million (£6 million each to the UN—in support of the humanitarian plan—and the International Committee for the Red Cross for the internally displaced). Our funds are being used to support urgent humanitarian interventions in shelter, social protection, water and sanitation, food and health sectors.

Pensions

Lord Laird: To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Lord Patel of Bradford on 19 March (WA 82), what are the standard employer and employee contribution rates of the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme; and which departments are responsible for the other four largest public sector pension schemes.

Lord Patel of Bradford: I refer the noble Lord to the reply I gave him on Thursday 19 March 2009, Official Report, col. WA82.
	The departments responsible for the other four largest public sector pension schemes are as follows:
	National Health Service Pension Scheme—Department of Health; Teachers' Pension Scheme—Department for Children, Schools and Families;Armed Forces Pension Scheme—Ministry of Defence; andLocal Government Pension Scheme for England and Wales—Department for Communities and Local Government.

Pensions

Lord Laird: To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Lord Patel of Bradford on 19 March (WA 82), what payments are projected to be made in the current and the next financial year to the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme by way of (a) employer contributions, and (b) other costs.

Lord Patel of Bradford: I refer the noble Lord to the reply I gave him on 19 March 2009, Official Report, col. WA82. Estimates of income into the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme are included in the "Supply Estimate for Cabinet Office: Civil Superannuation".

Turkey

Lord Hylton: To ask Her Majesty's Government what amount of European Union grants and loans have been allocated to each of the provinces of Turkey in each of the current and previous two years; how much of the allocation has been spent in each province; and what future funding has been agreed for the provinces of Turkey, and for Siirt.

Lord Tunnicliffe: A breakdown of European Union (EU) grants and loans to Turkey by province for the current and previous two years and for future years is unavailable. Information on EU financial assistance to Turkey can be found on the EU website www.ec.europa.eu and on the European Investment Bank (EIB) website www.eib.orq.

Visas

Baroness Hanham: To ask Her Majesty's Government why the date of application for student visas is being set at the date of biometric registration and not the date of initial application and fee payment.

Lord West of Spithead: In accordance with the Immigration and Nationality (Fees) Regulations 2007, where a visa application is to be accompanied by a specified fee, the application is not considered to be valid until that fee has been paid. I therefore confirm that a visa application is deemed to be lodged on the date that the required fee is paid.